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<span class=large>EZRA</span>
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CHAPTER 9
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Many Jews intermarry with, and follow the abominations of, the Canaanites and others—Ezra prays, and confesses the sins of all the people.
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Now</span> when these things were done, the <sup>a</sup><a href="ezra/9/1a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE officials.">princes</a> came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not <sup>b</sup><a href="ezra/9/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="Alma 5: 57.">separated</a> themselves from the people of the lands, <i>doing</i> according to their <sup>c</sup><a href="ezra/9/1c" mark="c" type="A" title="Deut. 12: 31 (30-31); D&C 3: 18.">abominations</a>, <i>even</i> of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
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For they have taken of their <sup>a</sup><a href="ezra/9/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Marriage, Interfaith.">daughters</a> for themselves, and for their sons: so that the <sup>b</sup><a href="ezra/9/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 7: 6.">holy</a> seed have mingled themselves with the people of <i>those</i> lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.
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And when I heard this thing, I <sup>a</sup><a href="ezra/9/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Job 1: 20; Alma 46: 12.">rent</a> my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.
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Then were assembled unto me every one that <sup>a</sup><a href="ezra/9/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 119: 53; D&C 1: 7.">trembled</a> at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice.
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&#182; And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> my God,
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And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over <i>our</i> head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
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Since the days of our fathers <i>have</i> we <i>been</i> in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, <i>and</i> our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to <sup>a</sup><a href="ezra/9/7a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB shame.">confusion</a> of face, as <i>it is</i> this day.
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And now for a little space <sup>a</sup><a href="ezra/9/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Grace.">grace</a> hath been <i>shewed</i> from the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a <sup>b</sup><a href="ezra/9/8b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 22: 23 (23, 25).">nail</a> in his holy place, that our God may <sup>c</sup><a href="ezra/9/8c" mark="c" type="A" title="3 Ne. 13: 22; D&C 88: 11.">lighten</a> our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
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For we <i>were</i> bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our <sup>a</sup><a href="ezra/9/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Bondage, Physical.">bondage</a>, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
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And now, O our God, what shall we say after this?  for we have forsaken thy commandments,
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Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the <sup>a</sup><a href="ezra/9/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Filthiness.">filthiness</a> of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.
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Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave <i>it</i> for an inheritance to your children for ever.
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And after all that is come upon us for our <sup>a</sup><a href="ezra/9/13a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Evil.">evil</a> deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our <sup>b</sup><a href="ezra/9/13b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Sin.">iniquities</a> <i>deserve,</i> and hast given us <i>such</i> deliverance as this;
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Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations?  wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed <i>us,</i> so that <i>there should be</i> no remnant nor escaping?
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O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of Israel, thou <i>art</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="ezra/9/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 119: 137.">righteous</a>: for we remain yet escaped, as <i>it is</i> this day: behold, we <i>are</i> before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.
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